Sender Garlin Letters to Gil Green
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Sender Garlin (1902-1999) was an author and journalist. This collection consists of letters Sender Garlin wrote between 1980-1987 to Gil Green (1906-1997) a longtime leading member of the Communist Party USA, and at that time, the unofficial leader of its reformist wing.
Historical/Biographical Note
Sender Garlin (1902-1999), was an author and journalist, who wrote for the Socialist Party newspaper, Appeal to Reason, the Communist Party's Western Worker, helped form the John Reed Club in the early 1930s and was a founding editor of the Partisan Review before he moved on to write for the New Masses.
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The collection consists of letters Sender Garlin wrote between 1980-1987 to Gil Green (1906-1997) a longtime leading member of the Communist Party USA, and at that time, the unofficial leader of its reformist wing, until he left the Party in 1991 to help found the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism. The letters discuss personal matters and a wide range of domestic and international political issues, including the history and current state of labor and the left in the United States, and of the Communist Party USA. The letters are often accompanied by attached clippings.
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Materials are open without restrictions.
Conditions Governing Use
Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archive has no information about copyright ownership for this collection and is not authorized to grant permission to publish or reproduce materials from it. Materials in this collection, which were created in 1980-1987, are expected to enter the public domain in 2107.
Preferred Citation
Identification of item, date; Sender Garlin Letters to Gil Green; TAM 536; box number; folder number; Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, New York University.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Materials found in collection; provenance is unknown. The accession number associated with this collection is 2010.039.
